ITALY: Another Government Dissolves

As expected, Italy's 39th government since the fall of Fascism in 1943
went the way of all the others last week. But nothing demonstrated the
changing times and mood more than the manner in which the government
fell.

In 1973, Premier Giulio Andreotti, who then headed a center-right
coalition made up of his Christian Democrats and the conservative
Liberal Party, lost 13 consecutive parliamentary votes before calling
it quits. This time Andreotti's 18-month-old government did not so much
fall as dissolve. To avoid...